Chapter 84: First to strike (1/2)
Chapter 84: First to strike
After mounting a sneak attack on Liu Gan and Jiang JinYuan, the tentacle monster, having had two of its tentacles chopped off by Liu Gan, fled back to its warehouse above in panic. This tentacle monster’s attack power was extremely powerful, with exceptionally high movement speed and agility. Those two tentacles with thorns basically ensured one-hit kills against normal humans. Even players that had advanced in rank wouldn’t be able to resist that kind of attack without a Mist Armor like Liu Gan’s.
However, its defenses were extremely weak. Liu Gan had only used his axe to slice off two of its tentacles before it had lost its ability to fight, and bounded off to the surface.
With it in the warehouse, Liu Gan couldn’t be at ease. Who knew if its tentacles would grow back after a certain amount of time? Moreover, it held a grudge against Liu Gan because he’d chopped off its tentacles, and it could mount another sneak attack on Liu Gan when he wasn’t paying attention. At the moment, the Mist Armor from his alloy watch had turned red. It was clear to see that any other attacks could result in it being broken.
That’s why, while the tentacle monster was injured, Liu Gan had to take this opportunity to gain the advantage.
Moreover, this tentacle monster was displayed as a scarlet dot on the screen, which meant that it was most likely a variant type of colossal zombie. If Liu Gan was able to kill a lot of these variant colossal zombies, he would be able to absorb more black orbs to increase his strength, and boost his rank from level 5 to level 6.
No matter what kind of reasons were proposed, Liu Gan couldn’t let that injured tentacle monster go.
Liu Gan climbed up the iron stairs and arrived at the room he had previously come down from, climbing back through the round metal door into the warehouse.
In such a complicated warehouse, it was very likely that the tentacle monster was just hiding in the criss-crossed pipelines on the ceiling. If he didn’t have the PDA to search, Liu Gan wouldn’t be able to locate it at all. But now, he could see its position clearly on the screen.
Of course, it was from a few minutes ago, and it could’ve already left.
After confirming where the tentacle monster colossal zombie had been during the probe scan, Liu Gan softly moved towards that direction. For the sake of avoiding inadvertently notifying the monster, Liu Gan tried his hardest to keep himself from making any sounds.
With a distance of a dozen or so meters, Liu Gan walked for over three minutes before he finally got near, arriving at a place a bit over 10 meters below the tentacle monster. Liu Gan stopped and lifted his head, his concentration focused as he inspected the ceiling.
Liu Gan didn’t shine his flashlight directly on the ceiling to avoid scaring it away, and instead pointed the flashlight at his own back. This provided some rays of light for his eyes in the pitch-black warehouse. These traces of light were already enough for his fortified vision.
As expected, there was a disgusting tentacle monster-shaped colossal zombie sprawled between those criss-crossed pipelines on the ceiling. Using his concentrated and fortified vision, Liu Gan could just barely make out the tentacle monster’s appearance.
The tentacle monster wasn’t like those giant muscular colossal zombies that were just thick meat and flesh. Its body length was about the same as a typical regular zombie, but its two legs could become like pythons, which allowed it to easily coil around the pipes. Its arms grew out into two long, pointed tentacles. Its previous attack on Jiang JinYuan and Liu Gan had used those two arm-like barbed tentacles.